Using Twitter as part of PLN and Interacting with Others.
Twitter has recently made two additions to the core program that offers considerable opportunity for educators to quickly and considerably increase their PLN network. The first is suggestions of 'Who to Follow'. This allows you to add educators that you have not had direct contact with to your PLN when they are suggested. While some of these can have be connected to your PLN indirectly they also can be completely new contacts and expose yourself and your work to their network of contacts easily. This has huge implications for the speed at which others can view your work.
Secondly Twitter allows any user to create a list of other twitter users. This allows the creation of educational themed lists which are an ideal and quick way to make contact with other educators or add quickly to your PLN. You simply locate another user who is either featured on a list or has created a list and you should then be able to access/follow those listed educators. Note: there have been consistent problems with Twitter.
Here is an example of the 51 lists that I currently feature on that are Educational based.
On Friday night, I asked "How has using Twitter helped your teaching, planning, programme?" These are the answers I got in a very short space of time (when most people were having a night out) :-)))...
Twitter has recently made two additions to the core program that offers considerable opportunity for educators to quickly and considerably increase their PLN network. The first is suggestions of 'Who to Follow'. This allows you to add educators that you have not had direct contact with to your PLN when they are suggested. While some of these can have be connected to your PLN indirectly they also can be completely new contacts and expose yourself and your work to their network of contacts easily. This has huge implications for the speed at which others can view your work.
Secondly Twitter allows any user to create a list of other twitter users. This allows the creation of educational themed lists which are an ideal and quick way to make contact with other educators or add quickly to your PLN. You simply locate another user who is either featured on a list or has created a list and you should then be able to access/follow those listed educators. Note: there have been consistent problems with Twitter.
Here is an example of the 51 lists that I currently feature on that are Educational based.
On Friday night, I asked "How has using Twitter helped your teaching, planning, programme?" These are the answers I got in a very short space of time (when most people were having a night out) :-)))...